Christina Hampton

FACS helps prepare students for family life, work life and careers in family and consumer sciences by providing opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors needed through character development, creative and critical thinking, interpersonal communication, practical knowledge, a vocational preperation. FACS is a foundational tool for all career choices. When people take the following steps, they will more than likely find an inward peace that cannot be found outwardly (meaning: popularity, drugs, money, looks etc.)

Personal Responsibility: individuals for their own lives and actions
Empowering: FACS is meant to empower students to discover their abilities

Acceptance: accept truth and things that cannot be changed(e.g. the past, height, nature)

Change: changing self, others and community for the better when able

Example: We wish to lead not just with words but by example

CHALLENGES

We face as a society: Family Consumer Sciences Education empowers individuals and families throughout their life to manage the challenges of living and working in a diverse, global society. The challenges individuals face throughout their life include balancing personal, home and family work lives; acquiring marketable skills to be successful in life management, employment, and career development; promoting optimal nutrition and wellness; and managing resources to meet the material needs of individuals and families.

In today's society there are more two-career families than ever before and the number of personal bankruptcies has risen 400 percent in the past 25 years. Family and Consumer Sciences can give individuals the practical knowledge, critical and creative thinking skills to address problems in diverse family, community, and work environments.